When the American food activist and author Michael Pollan famously railed against eating “anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognise,” he was referring to highly processed foods, rather than exotic ingredients. But sometimes I...
The garden has been designed as a journey. First, a set of wooden steps leads down the steep banks to the space’s most dramatic feature: a trio of floating decks shaped like waterlilies that nestle into the coastline. On the edge of a saltwater...
It was a rather lovely moment. I was just doing the golden rooster and… No, it’s a move in tai chi, that involves standing on one… Yes, tai chi. Well that’s up to you, of course, but I don’t think nancying-about is an entirely objective way to...
My home office has bookshelves, which my dad built for me, lining two of the walls. On one wall the shelves contain only fiction and on the other wall the bookshelf is split into two: with one side devoted to gardening and the other side...
